RE: Be like them.
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i guess I have some idols, many I think, for example; Bhagavan, Swami Vivekenanda Saraswati, and Sahajananda (some "teachers" I shared some time & space with, in India, Thailand & Mexico). Also many who have left there bodies, such as Jesus, Buddha, Krishna and Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi.
I'm fairly sure I don't idolize them. I see "faults" too.
What if, We The People were able to collaborate, using a particular method (unhindered by any person or any organisation) to come to consensus of an idol, an ideal. That consensus would be continually refined in this method. The "ideal" would be made up of many ideals, i imagine, which would likely include non-violence, non-theft, abundance, etc.
Those ideals could be represented by an animated video character (like an AI President) ever morphing (face changing male, female, adult, child, etc.), talking on screen, speaking of the ideals which the group have agreed upon, and are contimually being refined, by concensus), and ideals spoken of by some masters no longer in this physical dimension, and of ways we can collaborate systematically, governed by ourselves, to move closer to those ideals?
Can you imagine it?
i see it. i see a way, a particular system which could enable the above and help humanity step forward together toward harmony with all beings.
i have not yet been able to paint the picture (through writing mostly) of the particular system of which i speak, well enough to attract people who "get it" and begin to help.
So, I need help with that.
Sat Nam
Atma
Glad to read that you don't idolize your idols! Seems like I was able to express my thoughts well 😅
My utopia partially includes what you say. I never thought about an AI president, sure enough, as my utopia is Anarchism. But the fundamentals are the same, a ground structure of common values and ideas on which the society orients themselves.
I don't have much hope for that to ever be realized. So many values are so far gone, so many traditions are frowned upon or lost already. The instinctual ego has become more important to most parts of society than the social values and are supported by an economic system that thrives on just that - superficial consumerism and self-exploitation.
Yet, I'll never stop dreaming :-) I always try to implement my vision and values in my work, both in my bakery as well as with my daughter and her upbringing and education. It's probably not hope, just a form recalcitrance (just learned that word, I hope I used it correctly :-D ).
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